NEVER HAD A HOPE
j DEAD FJJER IDENTIFIED BY HAITI
: ' SEARCHERS’ .ORDEAL
* r i LONDON, July’, oi.’ ;[ A special message form the Rangoon correspondent of the “Daily Mail” 'states that' the body of -cAm Hook, the Australian airman wild’ was lost while on a flight from England to Australia with’ Jack Matthews, was found on the bank of a stream. ‘ ' '
' : Although the body was little more than a .skeleton, tliere was no douot as to whose it was, the hair being a ‘sure mark of inclentiiicatjon. ! Ast-the airmen had discarded tlieir shirts and stockings and had utilised Hook’s shorts as a distress signal hung at a tree-top, the body .was naked and had obviously been mauled either by a t'ger or a leopard. . ' • . • . - ■ . ! The searchers had a very gruelling time, being .often waist deep and even chest-deep in the water .of raging streams. ; ]f is’ recalled that Matthews left Hook on the bank of a mountain river •' which rose and washed him away.' Hook then was undoubtedly dead. . .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 3
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168NEVER HAD A HOPE Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 3
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